Alex Kanevsky on the cover of Harper's

2013/05/01

Alex Kanevsky Interview
The Huffington Post

2013/03/23

"Being an artist, I am not really in the business of making a product. Like everyone else, I have my own unique view of the world. As an artist I try to arrive at the extreme clarity of that view and then try to find visual means, capable of expressing this clarity. So, if my work has any recognizable traits, they are mostly a byproduct of always trying to be very clear and concise about my personal view of the world. You know, if you always trying to climb the same mountain, you will eventually be known as a guy who is always climbing that mountain." Click here to continue reading.

To Give Ourselves Over: A Conversation with China Marks and H.L. Hix
Numero Cinq

2013/03/16

"China and Harvey are old friends, too, and that comes through, intense, intelligent conversation between friends. They take, as their starting point, a phrase from Richard Wilbur — confounders of category — which they both read in Julie Larios’s essay on riddles; and this conversation is all about confounding categories, crossing boundaries, connecting things that are not connected except in the minds of the artists, about play and the dramatic tensions inherent in confounded categories..." Click here to keep reading.

Jane LaFarge Hamill
Fine Art Connoisseur

2013/03/14

"In looking at the intelligent, thought-provoking paintings in Hamill’s Emoticon exhibition, I see a slight satire of these societal trends, but I also sense a suggested alternative. Whether she is focused on a particular mood of human expression, an iconic image or logo adopted by an athletic figure, or the intersection of inordinate ideas and concepts, the artist seems to be showing us where our attention and devotion divide. In many ways it’s as if she’s trying to refocus that attention, with a complete understanding of how fragmented it has become. She obliterates faces, blurs lines, and shakes up the stylistic status quo to show us that one can never fully define or capture human emotion or existence — because it lives and moves and breathes, unlike our static online counterparts." Continue Reading.

Michael Massaia featured in Photo Technique

2013/03/01

Massaia’s photographs are both formal and expressive, most often sharing a non-empathetic view of the subject matter in the photograph. Self taught and extremely well versed in the science of photography, Michael Massaia—thoughtful, conf ident and inventive—makes his photographs while most folks are asleep. Usually out with his camera between the hours of 2:00 am and 4:00 am (before the sun rises) most people attempting a creative endeavor would be trying to stay awake with coffee. Instead Massaia is wide-awake, solitary but not lonely, not far from home in Suburban New Jersey.

Caitlin Hurd–The Pinch Literary Journal

2013/02/12

"Artist Caitlin Hurd‘s new exhibit, Difference and Disorder, runs from February 14th to March 2nd, and it’s going to be worth seeing. These paintings are concerned with those moments in each of our lives that seem suspended in time, disconnected, wherein the mind exists somewhere else. Hurd herself experienced this in a near-fatal car wreck, and through this new series she examines, as she puts it, 'The dark beauty that we all notice from time to time.'"

Valeri Larko "Agony and Ecstasy of the Outmoded New Jersey Monthly"

2013/01/14

"Her pictures of hulking storage tanks, defaced factories, blackened trestles and rusted gantries are technically landscapes; but the structures’ sad, slow slip from icons of power and progress to tattered elders left to rot gives them the poignancy of portraits. On one level, Larko’s subjects are symbols of industrial exploitation—of workers, resources, the environment. Yet far from kicking them when they’re down, she embraces them as emblems of the human condition." Click here to keep reading.

Caitlin Hurd "Art Rated"

2013/02/01

"Caitlin Hurd’s paintings are self-described ‘suspended-in-time’ moments; domestic objects and lost children float and sink into unblemished, green landscapes. With technical assuredness Hurd tackles personal uncertainty; these pictures represent the mind’s departure after surviving a traumatic event. In her case, Hurd channels her experience of surviving being hit by a car through her characters’ relationship to the landscape."

Art Miami Context Highlights "New American Paintings Blog"

2012/12/12

Nick Bierk and Alex Kanevsky

Michael Massaia listed in American Photo's "Images of the Year"

2012/12/18

"This haunting image sums up for me not just the many tragedies Sandy wrought but also the way that the best photography can transform reality into art." - Miriam Leuchter, Editor - In - Chief of American Photo Magazine

Kim Frohsin "Huffington Post"

"Frohsin's number series came about as the result of an invitation. Asked to prepare for a 2012 "Portrait Show" at Fort Mason, Frohsin balked at the idea of portraits of people: "I wanted to make portraits of ideas," she recalls. Frohsin began with a portrait of her favorite number -- 21 -- and the series took off from there in non-sequential fashion. When developing the number paintings Frohsin generally has an association or personal connection in mind. For example, she thinks of 21 as being 'somehow black and white perfect: It gives me comfort.'"

Jane LaFarge Hamill Interview

2012/10/18

Das Musikmagazin -

Do you own a basic principle or a quotation?

I try not to- I find quotations that you hold on to like fortune cookies- are a little empty. You get to know them so well, they become ubiquitous. And principles become rules. Which one should never have. And if you have them, you should break them, because you probably have them because someone else imposed them on you, or you are just forming habits. And that’s no fun at all.

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Shelley Adler "Putting a Good Face on It" National Post

2012/02/16

"Part of what draws me to the the face is the personality and psyche and the person inside. It' sa real challenge to get something that feels like it's living and real while using materials in a sparing way."

Mia Brownell "Painting on a Molecular Level"

2012/09/01

"DNA and protein forms, they’re very potent signifiers to us culturally, especially the image of DNA we’re all so familiar with now. DNA suggests the scientist’s ability to control nature and there’s something really cool and fascinating about that. At the same time it’s really kind of frightening. And I’m drawn to that polarity. I’m also drawn to the formal aspects, the visual aspects of proteins. Their shapes are decadent, exquisite and elaborate."

Edwige Fouvry "Art Ltd."

2012/08/01

"These are intimate paintings, not large in scale, and done with a fluid, elegant brush, creating a smooth texture for canvases of modulated luminous color...They call to mind philosopher Martin Buber's famous essay, "I and Thou," in which he postulated the concept of "Dialogical Encounter." In these paintings by Fouvry, we are dealing with a painter whose committed encounters with her subjects evokes in turn the viewer's resonant response."

Nick Bierk "YYZ Living"

2012/06/16

"Nick’s diverse range of work varies from poignant self-portraits, thought-provoking paintings, experimental ‘inventories’ of dripped paint arranged in grids, stunning landscapes, and portraits painted on recycled Plexiglas, that were once used as mixing-palettes. The portraits are what Nick is most drawn to, 'I think it has to do a lot with loss and wanting to hold onto things, people really—not necessarily that I have lost…it’s just you want to grasp onto the really good people in your life and the friends that you have―and celebrate life and the human spirit.'" Read the entire article here.

Michael Massaia "New York Photo Review"

2012/03/24

"It is heartening to see such work done by a young photographer who has taken the time to master old processes and has the visual sense to use them both appropriately and well."

Ron Kingswood "I'm Comfertable with that Abstract World" The Heart of St. Thomas

2009/05/13

"His explorations of nature 'distills and renders the result of refined attention with a consistently exquisite eye and truly exceptional mastery of composition, color, and varied media,' praises art advisor Robert Moeller, former director of the Duke University Art Museum."

Ellen Wagener "Smoke and Mirrors: Sometimes our hearts tell us what's real when our eyes cannot."

2012/03/08

"Ellen Wagener is an outstanding landscapist in colored chalks, whose work repays a closer look. Wagener's drawing of a hillside is full of stern fact, as Ruskin would say, and we cannot help but be impressed. Her command of eye and hand is a marvel, and to see the complicated branches and shadows caught in a thousand instantaneous touches is to have a new revelation of the magical power of sheer technique. "

Brent McIntosh "Landscapes take an abstract twist"

2012/02/18

"At close quarters, McIntosh's deep affection for abstract is apparent, as well as his profound interest in the interplay of color and formal concerns and how they interact with the idea of image."

Trevor Young Examiner.com

2011/11/11

"Young embraces modern society’s ability to get gas, cash, food and directions without personal interaction. 'If we were to walk into certain places, we might be uncomfortable if there’s nobody there. But non-places, what’s so beautiful about them is you just pull up, nobody there ... We just get our gas and we leave.'" Continue reading here.

Alex Kanevsky–Art in America

2011/01/07

"Many of Kanevsky's works-done in oil on panel or linen-present light fluctuating across skin, bringing the flesh to life. New Hampshire Bather (2009) is remarkable for the fluid manner in which the artist renders its floating female body and amorphous tonalities of sky and water. Immersion seems to be Kanevsky's metaphor for a world in perpetual flux."

Carole Pierce "Memories etched in flame"

"It is with that seven-year-old's sense of wonder and easy awe that Pierce now sees nature. Her landscapes, focusing primarily on the sky, hit on our universal experiences of looking up, of watching with amazement as nature's fury unfolds before us. As with a child's perspective, we are held, wrapped in a blanket of color, protected from the four winds, and the crackles of fire-starting lightening."

Mia Brownell "The New Naturalism"

2010/09/01

"Brownell’s nature has been "modernized" and demystified, in that its genetic and cellular basis have been spelled out scientifically, but it remains mysterious -- even absurdly miraculous -- for it continues to produce, with patient inevitability, the fruits of life. But they may be artificial fruit, however real they look: They may be hard to digest because they may have been engineered into existence. "

Joan Winter–Chicago Art Magazine

2010/03/25

"..It is a bit odd to hear that a single body of work could be equally influenced by architecture and organic forms simultaneously. However, this is precisely what Joan Winter's sculptures and prints effortlessly achieve...Space is an evident concern tin the three-dimentional works, but it is employed in a slightly different was in the prints as well; the layering of imagery and the variations in tones imply illusionistic space informed by an understanding of light and shadows."

Alex Kanevsky's Irish Cow in the San Francisco Chronicle

2010/10/01

...Imagery appears to flow from Kanevsky’s hand with such ease that we never suspect him of using the camera, although perhaps he does.
He faces the unusual problem of making his work look contemporary, or at least modern; that is, troubled by the pretenses to truth that its gifted realism generates with seeming effortlessness...

Shelley Adler–The Globe and Mail

2008/11/22

"Shelley Adler's larger-than-life profile portrait seems to stand above the fray at the MoCCA like a beacon of intelligence and consummate skill. Painting with its deep roots in the past, can still take our breath away, a charged site where physical material and intellectual intent magically fuse. Coming upon her painting here was like finding a luminous angel adrift in the aisled of Honest Ed's"

Joan Winter–Dallas Modern Luxury

2008/12/01

"Whether sculpting in wood or cast resin, creating multiple layered intaglio prints or print-makings, Winter's work in each medium asks its own questions and finds its own solutions; her transitions from three dimensions to two, and back again, is artistic shapeshifting with an uncommon gracefulness."

Alex Kanevsky–ARTnews

2007/09/01

"Alex Kanevsky paints subjects other than nudes, but nudes are what he does best. He depicts them in a strange and disturbing manner so that his images have a ghostly intensity. In this show...he continued to blur the line between photography and paintings, rendering figures in a style that might be described as impressionist realism. ...They tantalize the viewer with the suggestion of a hidden narrative, which they, in turn, elaborate."